Constance Buchanan is the author of Choosing to Lead: Women and the Crisis of American Values. A progressive analysis of the current debate about the nation's values crisis, the book offers new insight into the historical and cultural barriers preventing women from becoming full participants in American public life, and argues that traditional systems of belief that marginalize women are not disappearing but adapting and continuing at great cost to society. The book challenges women to claim the authority to articulate their vision about the welfare of society as a whole and to provide the leadership that can address our values crisis. "Eleven most influential books" The Oldest Vocation: Christian Motherhood in the Middle Ages by Clarissa W. Atkinson The Cost of Talent: How Executives and Professionals are Paid and How it Affects America by Derek Bok Rightous Discontent: The Women's Movement in the Black Baptist Church by Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham Dubious Conceptions: The Politics of Teenage Pregnancy by Kristin Luker "Feminist Social Criticism and Marx' Theory of Religion" by Amy Newman, Hyptia 9, no. 4 (Fall 1994): 15-38 (not available at this bookstore) The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure by Juliet Schor Protecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins of Social Policy in the United States by Theda Skocpol The First Industrial Woman by Deborah Valenze Black Teenage Mothers: Pregnancy and Childrearing From Their Perspective by Constance Willard Williams Three Guineas by Virginia Woolf Return to the Writers Read List

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